[rhelv6-beta-list] My first experiences with RHEL6 beta

[John Summerfield]

John McNulty wrote:
>

> 
> But sometimes it's not the easiest thing to trust upstream to do what's
> right when bugs that affect all distros go unfixed for years.  e.g.
> 
> [john at dsv03-pv1 ~]$ echo $LANG
> en_GB.UTF-8
> [john at dsv03-pv1 ~]$ time grep '^....' /usr/share/dict/words >/dev/null
> 
> real 9m29.275s
> user 9m29.055s
> sys 0m0.043s
> 

Interesting...

> And it pegs my CPU at 100%.   Compare this to...
> 
> [john at dsv03-pv1 ~]$ export LANG=C
> [john at dsv03-pv1 ~]$ time grep '^....' /usr/share/dict/words >/dev/null
> 
> real 0m0.116s
> user 0m0.107s
> sys 0m0.006s
> 
> 
> This little gem has been hanging around since 2005 (
> http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?14472)
> 
> John
> 

Is different here:

[root at ns ~]# LANG=C; time grep -q '^....' /usr/share/dict/words

real    0m0.003s
user    0m0.001s
sys     0m0.002s
[root at ns ~]# LANG=en_AU.UTF-8; time grep -q '^....' /usr/share/dict/words

real    0m0.004s
user    0m0.001s
sys     0m0.003s
[root at ns ~]#


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Cheers
John

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